Do not buckle
NO matter how bad things get, the British people must not flinch in our support of Ukraine.
We know that’s easy to say. Some may face hardship this winter no one here has experienced since the world wars.
Our support for Ukraine must never waver[/caption]
Possible blackouts and shortages may stoke the temptation, already reportedly spreading in parts of the EU, to soften up towards Russia and appease Putin.
Those siren calls come mainly from the political hard-Left which still has a soft spot for the Kremlin and shamefully even admires its imperialism.
Britain and the EU must ignore them.
Ukraine’s violated, butchered people are suffering far worse than anything we can imagine and need our unstinting help. And if we give Putin an inch, to ease the price of gas, he will know he can always hold the world to ransom.
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He could even take Ukraine eventually. Then he would line up a new target. His stated goal, remember, is a Russian-led empire stretching west to Portugal.
With our weapons and aid Britain has led global support for Ukraine, which has defended itself heroically.
Buckle to the tyrant now, reward his genocide, and Ukraine’s defeat and even an apocalyptic war involving Nato may be next.
Secret police
FOR too long police have had a knee-jerk desire to cover up everything from scandals to even innocuous details of investigations.
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With many forces now abjectly failing in their duties, it is perhaps unsurprising to see that fetish for secrecy explode — and with it the vilification of journalists who could expose them.
Our police officers must be held accountable by the press and respect the role of journalists in democracy[/caption]
But it is still shocking to unearth covert guidance from the College of Policing which classes reporters alongside criminals and extremists, and orders officers to declare any dealings with them.
This is the long, grim legacy of the Leveson inquiry, that debacle in which a political establishment wounded by the expenses scandal took revenge by making pariahs of the Press.
News organisations are not the police’s enemy. Our publicity and investigations often play a key role in combating crime and keeping communities safe.
And if our cops really seek to improve, they must not declare war on whistleblowers or the reporters they co-operate with. They should want scandals exposed so they can learn from them.
This foolish guidance must be rewritten.
Car trouble
YOU don’t have to be a militant Brexiteer to wonder why the Cabinet’s car fleet is being replaced by German Audis.
Can no UK maker supply armoured vehicles?
Why can’t British politicians drive British cars?[/caption]
Remainer bores will pillory that as a Little Englander view.
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But President Macron insists on a French limo. Chancellor Scholz’s is German.
Can a British Cabinet not have British motors?
